haleyanna19

I just started Nursing School in late August, and I am having slight difficulty hearing heart and lung sounds. I mean, I can HEAR heart sounds, I just don't know what exactly I am hearing (Like, is it the pulmonary valve? Apical pulse? WHAT IS IT?! L...

I wouldn't see anything wrong w/it. Just don't share the info w/other patients. (I.E., telling patient in room 205 that the patient in room 207 has a WBC of 150k and prob has an infection) why couldn't the student that is helping you find the lab val...

Thank you, I know if you're as stressed as I am, the last thing you need is immature people poking fun at you for how you feel. Ignore these people, if they are going to make fun of someone for stating how they feel, imagine how they will treat their...

yeah, that's ridiculous. sounds like they have nothing better to do with themselves. My teachers would care less about what some random person posted on an even more random website :) haha

Be nice, I don't know if you're in school or not, but nursing school does crazy things to you. The last thing the poor girl needs is people making fun of her and calling her "weird" and making rude comments about what she writes. She's just venting ...

I go to school full time and I don't work. I don't see anything wrong with it, I get my experience from clinicals (I'm assuming every nursing school has clinicals you MUST attend!) Listen, if you don't have to work, it'd be silly to work. Focus all ...

I dont see anything wrong with it as long as you didn't use any names or anything, I personally don't think that what you do away from school is any of their business...

my school is very against the cloth covers for steths---it can harbor bacteria, big time! :) I put a name tag on mine, it's plastic and has a little nurse on it and a blank side to write my name on. I wrote it in BLACK sharpie so it can't rub off :) ...

i am going through the same thing--the guy I sort of am seeing asks me to hang out ALLLLL the time, and 9 times outta 10, I cant. Hes not even IN school! I'd say cut the ties, unless she can handle your load. Why don't you show her some of the things...

she can want to be a nurse, and not get along with her instructor. That could just be a difference in personalities. Don't shatter her dreams. I have a tough professor---she sent a gal home today because she didn't have her name badge with her! You j...

no problem, sister! :)

I agree with everyone else, except for cheating the system! Lol. I'd take the LPN, and then later go for RN, that way you're providing for your daughter and can have some experience under your belt. You sound like me with the parents--I am blessed t...

my school was strict, too. I took Human Growth and Development....Not to sound like a brat, but if they didnt want you to take the class, they wouldn't have made it one of the pre-reqs

that iPod thing is neat! Do your teachers use any type of mechanism to record their lectures and post them online? For instance, our teachers use Tegrity...and tegrity offers an iPod app that I DL'd to my iPod touch and I can listen to them anywhere ...

that post about making a germ-x moustache made me laugh out loud!! Haha!!! but back to the Vicks--I have had 4 different RNs tell me that does the trick. Maybe you should try that. I am blessed with a VERY faint sense of smell. Seriously---a skunk co...

we are going over heart and lung sounds as well right now. I dont know why a teacher would teach you something and then say, "You'll never need this". What did you have trouble with? Did you just not know how to perform the tests correctly? I struggl...

I guess my Littman Lightweight is decent enough, I just think it's my ear canals, honestly. I ask God, "If you wanted me to become a nurse, why did you give me 'bad ears' to not hear heart and lung sounds accurately with?!" Haha! But God doesnt make ...

Have you tried to rub vicks under your nose? when I do rounds at the nursing home, it works for me :) I gag at the smell of the ENTIRE nursing home! Lol!

How much are the cardiology stethooscopes? I have a Littmann's lightweight. I think part of my problem is that one ear canal is smaller than the other (it's true--my doctor told my mom that when I was born) so one ear piece fits in my ear and the oth...

I am in Fundamentals of Nursing right now and it's pretty intense. I am also in Health Assessment and Pharmacology, and since I started August 23rd, I have studied my fundamentals every day since then, and havent even had time to study for anything o...